It's upside down world. #resist
Astro imaging under #MountPearl suburban light dome Bortle 5/6.
Or sometimes #TerraNovaNP #darkskypreserve Bortle 2.
#nlwx weather geek by necessity.
#nlastro
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Here is another version of the marvelous new Artemis II view of Earth, taken just minutes later.
This shot uses a shorter exposure, emphasizing the night side of our planet as it eclipses the Sun.
You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.
My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐
But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun 🌕
The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.
Cool.
I never thought this day would come. Hydro Quebec is providing incentives for Solar panels.
"Hydro-Québec offers financial assistance in the amount of $1,000 per installed kilowatt, up to 40% of the purchase and
installation costs of solar panels when all Program requirements are met."
See page 22: https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/logisvert/logisvert-guide-participation-residentiel-en.pdf
Lots of other incentives for energy efficiency: https://www.hydroquebec.com/residential/energy-wise/financial-assistance/logisvert/residential.html
Particle physicist Mary Katharine Gaillard was born #OTD in 1939. She and Benjamin Lee predicted the mass of the charm quark in 1974, and she was the first tenured woman on the physics faculty at UC Berkeley.
Image: Emilio Segre Visual Archives/AIP/SPL
*shrugs*
Literally every rich and powerful person in your society envisions a future for you that looks like Dubai. And in that story, you aren't gonna be one of the people eating fois gras in the luxury bar.
They aren't hiding it either. So prolly time to figure out if that's cool with you or if you intend to do something to change the present course our society is on. Because it ends in Dubai - and Dubai is not for, and has not ever been for, the labor class.
Joey Smallwood: The Man Who Brought Newfoundland into Canada
As Newfoundland's first Premier (1949–1972), Joey Smallwood led the island’s Confederation with Canada. His passionate campaigns and radio speeches earned him a place in Canadian history. 🇨🇦 #Canada #JoeySmallwood #Newfoundland #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joey-smallwood
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"Until all of us 'just get to exist', none of us 'just get to exist'.
Trans rights are the domino the fascists are pushing to knock down all human rights. Hold the door!"
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